Pepper Wreck
Subtitle: A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: College Station
First sentence: After a six-month voyage from Cochin, India, and a three-month layover in the Azores, the Portuguese East Indiaman Nossa Senhora dos Mártires arrived in sight of Lisbon on 14 September 1606.  A heavy storm forced her captain Manuel Barreto Rolim to drop anchor off Cascais, a small village a few miles from Lisbon.  Here the nau Salvação, another returning Indiaman from the 1605 fleet, was already struggling with a southerly gale.  Dangerously dragging her anchors in the direction of the beach, Salvação was too heavy to be towed against the wind by the galley that was sent from Lisbon to help her.  The next day, after watching Salvação run aground on the Cascais beach, Rolim decided to head for the mouth of the Tagus River, hoping to escape the tempest in the calmer waters of the estuary.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 3
class: chapter
label: 1; label: 2
pagenum: 9
class: chapter
title: The India Route; label: 3
pagenum: 31
class: chapter
title: The Ships; title: The Voyage of the Nossa Senhora dos Mártires
pagenum: 59
class: chapter
label: 4; title: Site Formation
pagenum: 74
class: chapter
label: 5; title: Survey and Excavation
pagenum: 87
class: chapter
label: 6; label: 7
pagenum: 105
class: chapter
title: Hull Description; title: Analysis and Reconstruction
pagenum: 147
class: chapter
label: 8; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 180
class: chapter
label: 9; title: Tonnage and Systems of Units
pagenum: 189
class: section
label: Appendix A; label: Appendix B
pagenum: 193
class: section
title: Bibliography of Iberian Wrecks; label: Appendix C
pagenum: 203
class: section
title: Artifact List; pagenum: 241
class: section
label: Notes; pagenum: 257
class: section
label: Bibliography; pagenum: 279
class: section
label: Index